UTOPIA

Enamored once with beauty,

Of a village girl looking exotic,

Her ring, color frock, ankle chain,

Bare her feet, long hair, ribbon,

Round face, sparkling eyes, smile,

Took a glance remote village in the mile,

Early morning cowherd ringing bell,

Farmer moving to the field, bullock in the tail,

Village barber with a toolset hark,

A child calls a vegetable vendor park,

Black smokes in the cottage of an ironsmith,

Hammer red iron, charcoal underneath,

Carpenter cuts wood in the saw for a cart,

Village pond females with pitcher first,

Plumber dries earthen pots, idol, lamp,

Weaver dyes cloths in color, cotton damp,

Goldsmith with bangle calls in the road,

Female crowds, in delight for gold,

 Pulls cart vendor shouts on goods,

Follows a trolley moves with wood,

Thatched roof in smokes, kitchen fire,

Aromas of spices magical inspire,

Mango groves with flower bud smell,

Summer ripe mangoes children swell,

Paddy ripe looks golden sway in the breeze,

Villager busy in the harvest in night freeze,

Wintertime evening village home light,

Lantern, lamp, women worship delight,

A cottage old villager reads Bhagavat,

Villagers listen in silence at the night,

Green hill around the village, a river flows,

Cornfield extends to the riverbank in rows,

Boatman with boat catches fish, ply goods,

There is a narrow road to a town near woods,

Bullock cart ferries villager n product,

No electricity, vehicle, motor, lonely most,

Impressive is village life in nature,

Small a school, clinic life is secure,

Utopia saw in life never forget in life,

Decades passed in city utopia strike,

 

Once on a visit to the metro saw urban life,

Towers of sky scrapper motors drive,

People are busy in rustle to move,

Milling crowd in the bazaar, in park look,

A different world from the rustic village,

Cinema, college, office, hospital, sewage,

Stood speechless first I saw life,

Utopia is here with comfort luxury,

The desire of the human mind loots treasury,

Television, phone travel by train,

Bus, car, plane ply people in rain,

Move ahead to city limit, a river flows,

Heaps of plastic, dirt, a bank in rows.

Huge slum mile long with tiny shed,

Picture of honeycomb, human beehive,

Dirt, filth in space sock me kid’s look,

Spoilt her face in neglect smiles hook,

Innocence is god’s image village or town,

Utopia for kid’s game, food, black or brown,

Return to suburb witness high rise flats,

Humans live in dungeon moss or dirt,

Life in flats, local leads a busy working life,

Education, career, travel, elder often sick,

Search utopia here, if in mind lurk,

Found in dark gully lost myself murk,

 

Soul seeks village life serene in silence,

Innocence lives yet people in negligence,

Nature cares in love silence beauty at par

Concludes utopia exist in glory do inspire,

The joy of human heart peace in mind,

Blissful evenings scintillating night,

Sun-kissed cornfields, a full moonlit pond,

Pass till last day in utopia, an earth bond.

 

 

 

METAPHOR

 

Witness simile in life mind is the ocean,

The thought is a forest, console as lotion,

Smiles impress as love, tear to hurt,

Whispers like the idea, an oasis in comfort,

Metaphor projects pictures matching,

Effects of magical impression expressing,

 

National culture includes a metaphor,

The message of the father of the nation, in life, adore,

Three monkeys mute, blind, deaf décor,

Intimated as gurus, principle enamor,

A most difficult task, human life practice,

Eyes, ears, mouth close for evil notice,

Leaders of nation, press, eminent fail,

Generations awe to notion, mean detail,

Few understand metaphor, Bapu’s gift,

His aim for rulers, motive social uplift,

Rejection of evil as input to mind firm,

Expressing evil out of the mental block as an arm,

Ruler, citizen yet to decipher a metaphor,

In the practice of massage, life rare ardor,

 

Three monkeys, not humans as an idol,

One deaf, other mute, rest blind all,

Monkey is a symbol of a restless mind,

Jumps ceaseless among trees find,

The tree is a metaphor of thought often,

The branch is a feeling, triggers motion,

Human behaves as monkey restless,

Mind in agitation rare as thoughtless,

Eyes, ears feed to mind, view, hear,

Self restrain, discipline never near,

Sight for lust, greed, hatred or envy,

Hundreds of attitude trap mind savvy,

Love for hearing self-flattery, insult,

Condemning other, rebuttal, assault,

Lies rumors fabrications, mind spoilt,

Input through the eye, ear, conscience melt,

Indiscriminate use of sight voice ruins,

Deaf and blind metaphor ignore wins,

The mouth is twin gate, close, well it means,

Word is deadlier than a weapon, the soul feels,

A hurt, wound by sword heals well fine,

Meer word affects deeper bleeds lifetime,

Evil word is a curse, insult, scold or lies,

Tongue to be blocked, teeth lips defies,

Never nation saw Bapu, words caustic,

Ever slashing tongue, silence realistic,

Wisest to be mute than evil retaliation,

Conscience rules mind purity reflection,

 

The metaphor of three monkey wisest move,

Stable mind discriminates purity wove,

Metaphor detached life path to realizing,

Mahatma showed a path of life precise.

 

MILIEU

 

Milieu, in an ocean of life, amazes,

Million pull chariot milieu essays,

Millennium cultural milieu attracts,

Miles chariot three, move n impacts,

 

Irresistible Holi soul plays in colors,

Inks milieu passion of life, ardours

Impressive song, dance, sweets time,

Impact memories milieu explicit fine,

 

Limitless; the flow of soul, a dip in the river,

Locate a bath, offer water to an ancestor,

Liberty to life in bondage milieu recall,

Love of penance, an opportunity rarely fall,

 

Intimate, milieu unites family ay home,

Interacts family bond Dussehra welcome,

Infects festive season, milieu buys open,

Ignites mind of celebration, milieu often,

 

Enforces a month sacred, vegetarian life,

Ensures morning bath in mass, milieu like,

Enjoys Morning Prayer worship feverish

Enraptures widowhood as devout wish,

 

Utter enlighten the mind in the festival of light,

Unique, a celebration of night cracker delight,

Unlocks heart in love friendship n gifts,

Unravels glittering gold milieu tilt swift, 

 

Milieu, in fright, warm cloth in winter,

Freezing night wind, street life shivers,

Desolate street after evening eerie silent,

Milieu celebrate New Year midnight scent,

 

Milieu cultural, a nation host round year,

Milieu, in costume, tradition, in faith prayer,

Milieu social transforms life, reform best,

Milieu blind faith, worsen life alienation test,

Milieu womanhood, child marriage erases,

Milieu uplifts female education privileges,

Milieu widow life, curse faith sacrileges,

Milieu mirrors a face, human savages.

 

 

NAÏVE SMILE REMINISCENSE

 

Sit alone in solitude an age, recluse,

Reminiscence entraps mind infuse,

Bygone childhood, adolescence thrill,

Naïve smile, face dragonfly to kneel,

Fragrance, the beauty of lotus in the pond,

Catching in mud teenage respond,

Autumn wind cool, blossom n green,

Melodious bird chirping smiles win,

Budding heart soft in the love of fun,

Rapturous smile naïve infect reckon,

Ripe age see kids smile naïve enjoy,

Keep looking, innocent face girl or boy,

Remember mother’s smile naïve often,

On return from school, plates play on,

Grandmother’s smile naïve her story,

Cry in fear or laugh night were sleeper,

Teacher’s smile naïve at a good result,

Never forgot stern warning fear most,

Friends miss in life their smile lost,

 

Adolescence when kiss mysteries most,

Thrill, frill n smile naïve behind stalk,

Run in fright often, her laughter sulk,

A friend was new, their catcall to jump,

Hearty smile naïve to rush the book to dump,

Game gossip afternoon coaching time,

Smiling heart naïve memory tear clean,

College parting time with result n bag,

Naïve tears goodbye to campus did tag,

Smiles infectious of class mated naïve,

Miss all in ripe age reminiscence save,

 

Golden youth long-vanished smile naïve,

Silent is life solitude hunt memory wave,

Remember marriage a time in a smile,

Smile of love naïve innocent docile,

A touch triggers surprise, awful to risk,

Smiles naïve often offer sweet crisp,

Family life with baby call frequent,

Fun-filled life, picnic, rich food scent,

 

 

Smile naïve together fade fast in time,

Fail to revive, resurrection writing line,

A time in sickness soft caress heal,

Decades pass smooth touches steal,

Life for a couple pleasant evening tea,

Rare reminiscence smile naïve free,

Prayer, meditation, silence rule life,

Festive time, lamps, feast, joy strike,

Do smile happy each other at home,

Recall past, a time smile naïve awesome.

 

 

 

 

IN PRETENSION

 

The confluence of desire, faith flows,

Pretension in life overwhelm, owes,

Impact my life swept in pretension,

Misses reality, time blown illusion,

Ripe age in silence sit, contemplate,

In prevention finds not me, duplicate,

Intention good enough by inspiration,

A young heart changed molten, as soften,

 

Married to love, felt long intimacy,

Windfall to a home, soul in ecstasy,

Gift surprises dress, favorite magic,

In pretension to please, time lunatic,

Occasion caught wife, tear sob silent,

In fever her delicate frame resilient,

Her smile, hug in warmth, clasp tight,

Inpretensions her love makes delight,

Learned her pain, miseries within late,

Male heart chokes, lack strength yet,

Pretension, the angel of love, caress soft,

At a ripe age in tear realize her trust,

Witnessed in life family brute often,

The pretension to ignore no commotion,

Angry at home, look away from her,

With the pretension to ignore, she's insecure,

A man’s conjugal life sweet n sour,

Pretension cements bond, trust savor,

 

Amazing realm nature in pretension,

Crane stands like a rock, alert to motion,

Crane’s pretension mislead fish under,

Peacocks for mating call tail in splendor,

Birds fly in the sky as arrow looms bigger,

Fish swims in number huge to secure,

Pretension is part of life nature is real,

It exists in the hope to achieve in time unreal,

Pretension in notice ruler’s promise,

Shelter, food, clothing gifts till demise,

Never happen in life as a mirage in hand,

Rulers pretension is the same a quicksand,

Modern life free good in pretension sweet,

Cheap home, travel, assets eye can meet,

News in pretension thrill mind as fact,

Purpose to raise dust, a boon impact,

 

Retract swooping mind back to home,

Incredible pretension serves in illusion,

Life in marriage laughs gossip plenty,

Pretension hides tear, agony a beauty.

Decades pass hand in hand to share,

Never bond breaks pretension shake,

Shocks time, erodes conjugal life much,

Pretension no more, deceptions lurch,

My way or highway bond crumbles,

Womanhood nostalgic anger crumples.

Look wife in serene presence near warm

Yesteryears time together in tear swarm

 

MATRON

 

Motherhood is a woman transcendental love,

Melodious voice recalls pain misery dissolve,

Mysterious her prayer transcends peace,

Matron in life dictates mind adopts advice,

 

Abject in respect for grandmother, matron,

Absolute happiness in her lap, stories often,

Acute pain in missing her teenage nostalgic,

Amazing her voice, tear never obey overseas,

 

Tear never saw in her nearest to her recline,

Tranquil mind in hear beads utter divine,

Trusted her in life till ripe age, prayers well,

Traverse in silence within, memories swell

 

Regal a matron in hospital, alert, serves sick,

Rescues from family life, matron cares magic,

Refuses age, tiring body, nightlong in a chair,

Relaxes in, home, the patient gets well smile fair,

 

Overwhelm matron; kids in school do listen,

Overtime her life in school in class, eyes glisten,

Often mind search in life headmistress misses,

Occurs to heart, her lessons for success kisses,

 

New-age women in age lead people with vision,

Nice talks for progress, skill, life to realization,

Nectar drops of the grandmother in life a grace,

Never feel in school, hospital, as her presence,

 

Matron like family head, her lifelong service,

Matron in, hospital care, never like a novice,

Matron in school builds human life, lesson,

Matron leads people pure, with a clear vision,

Matron is seen by all, as motherhood same,

 

Adore in heart mankind; ma means matron,

Accept key of the family to the creator of a nation,

Admirable, the human mind, praise underneath,

Adrift, the populace does sink; desert her to filth.